Woven carrier.



ma, BATCHELDER; wovEN cA'RlEn. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26. 1916.

1,268,787. Patented June 4, 1918.

wh/655: fg (Q In @um fw VM m UNITE s ns FRANK R, BATCHELDER, OF WORCESTER,

ATET OFFICE.

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO. UNIVERSAL WOVEN CARRIER.

Application led December 26, 1916.

To all whom, it muy concern.' 4

Be it known that I, Fit-xxx R.- BATCH- mimcn, a citizen ot the United States, residingat Worcester, in the county ot' 'orcester, State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in loven Carriers, ot which the following is a sptaitication, reference being had thereinto the accompanving drawings.

The invention has relation to carriers consisting of woven material which is formed into pockets or loops adapted to serve as receptacles. More especially it relates, though not exclusively. tov ammunition carriers and in particular to those having pockets to contain individual cartridges. lhe principle otl the invention is applicable in the caseot' various kinds o'f carriers, including those adapted to be worn as belts or otherwise, but. an important embodiment thereof is in a cartridge carrier or belt for use in machine-guns.

rl`he invention, stated in general terms, consists ina carrier ot the general class 125 aforesaid having a series ot' heavy threads 'or/cords superhcially attached 1n the we'avi 'ing ,to a surface ot' a woven strip constitut- `inga looi'-"or pocket-wall, the said series making a thickening band on, for instance, that portion ot' the pocket or loop which eneireles the bullet of an inserted cartridge.

l'leretotore, so far as I am aware, the Hthickening etl'eet has been produced either b wtaking t'or the pocket-wall a previouslywoven strip ot' somewhat greater width than the length ot' the desired pockets, and prior to making up.tl1e carrieror belt doubling one i `maiginal port ion ot such strip over upon the portion alongside thereot. and securing the 40 doubled-over portion in place by means ot stitches or otherwise: or by increasing the number ot' warp-threads otordinarv character employed in weaving one marginal por- `tion ot' the strip and so interweaviug them 46 as to form an increased thickness oi web, sometimes in the form ot' ribs or beads. ln these latter cases, the thickening and the ribs or beads ars liomogt-vneous with the remainder ot' the strip. and due to the mode 50 of interweaving the warp-threads with the wet't or filling, and thereby they are ditferentiated from the characteristic feature of the present invention, namely, the added thickening band composed ot' a series of t5 ,heavy threads or cords supertcially at- Specitcaton of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 4, 1918. serial No. 138,720.

tached to one surface of a woven strip. In other words, the characteristic feature of the invention `is an independent ply ot heavy threads or cords, as contradistinguished `from a mere increase of thickness or beaded effect due to a greater` multiplicity ot ordinary warp-threads and a change ot' weave. Although the ribs or beads of the prior art sometimes are called cords, by-reason of their appearance, they are not the same as the said supericially attached heavy threads or cords of my invention.

The nature ofthe invention is illustrated in the drawings, in which latter,h

Figure l is a view on the order of a perspective showing an illustrative embodiment ot' the invention` namely, in a portion of thel length of a woven carrier or belt, certain parts being broken away or removed in order to show features of construction more clearly.

Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section through a pocket or loop.

The invention is shown embodied in a woven carrier or belt of a well-known type composed of two woven strips 1, l, placed face to tace and secured together by pairs of metal binders 2, i), etc., 3, 3, etc.. at re0'ular intervals to torni pockets for containing single cartridges 4, t, etc., the two metal inet-,es constituting a pair of binders being located at opposite sides of the two woven strips and being fastened together, with the woven strips between them, by eycletrivets 5, 5, etc. This particular carrier or belt is designed tor use in machine-guus and accordingly, as usual, certaln (2. 2, etc.) of the pairs ot' binders project farther trom one edge ot' the carrier or belt than the points ot the bullets ot' the Iartridges contained 95 in the pockets, to serve to guide the carrier or belt as it is fed through a machine-gun, these pairs heilig known specifically as guides, and the outer extremities of the pair 2` 2, constituting a guide being secured together by an eyelet rivet 6, as shown.

At 7, 7. etc., are the heavy threads or cords lying upon surfaces ot the b0dy-webs of the respective woven strips, and constituting the thickening bands to which reference has been made. These heavy threads or cords are not embedded or incorporated in the said body-webs, but in conformity with the invention either series thereof constitutes in eHect a Separate ply or layer upon the b0dying they threads of the body-web ,'to the Web-surface layer of heavy .0 capacity ot are expanded more oriless,

1of the carrier or belt. 39 the pockets the main portions of the pockets are expanded somewhat .Consequently,

, gun, Without tendency or belt edgew'lse by reason of unequal rates web of its respective strip. TheJ individ/lal -heavy threads 'or cords o a given series lie side by side in such serie and in the Weavarebound or tied conveniently by'v on which they lie, Eas foriinstance by loops 8, 8, etc., of the weft or illin of the body- 'web. To show 4one m'anner ,in which vthe said loops8, 8`P et .,fmayg stand out from 10 the body-Web, portions of the cords are represented at the left 1n'F\ig; 1 'as having been removed.- As it .is not necessary threads or cords should be ci'osely woven, the binding Ortying loops '1 5 may be 'spaced somewhat widel'yapart, as

shown. u The respective series of heavy threads or cords vcoperate with the applied binders 2,

2, 3, 3, to reduce the internal dimensions. and those portions of the filledv pockets or loops which are occupied by the bullets. Therebyis secured the desired result of causing a snug tit of the bullets, withinthe said portions by which the latter so as to obviate tendency to longitudinal edgewise curvature of the filled carrier or belt due to unequal extents of expansion adjacent opposite edges lit the illed state oit more in proportion than the banded portions thereof, s0 that the two portions of every pocket or loop are substantially equal in external diameter.

the pushers of the machinegun act 'equally against the exterior-s of the two portions,l so as to feed the carrier or belt straight forward inits passage through the to skew 'the carrier of feed at or adjoining-the two edges o'f the carrier or belt.

The transverse Width of the thickening bland constituted by the series of heavy t reads or cords is such that the innermost the latter coincides with the right positionfor theI shoulder ofthe small or open end of the shell of a cartridge, thus providing for defining the extent oi'ei'atrancev of a cartridge into a pocket or loopt 4 Preferably, though not necessarily in'all cases, the heavy threads or cords are locatedA at the exterior-s ofjthc pockets or loops, as

shown in the drawings,where they are not 55 subject to injury from the sharp pointS Of 'the bullets as the cartridges are being 1n- 'may be located upon that vthe -V 1 1. A'- carrier consisting of Woven material the inner surfaces of.

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which :is formed into pockets or loops adaptled to serve asreceptacles, and having a series vof heavy threads or cords superticially and \eXteriorly attached inthe weaving upon a surface of a Woven strip constituting a loopor 'ticket-wall, the said series y making Aa thiol) tion of the pocketor loop.

21A] carrier or belt 'consisting of woven material4 which is formed intopockets or loops adapted to serve as receptacles for individual'cartridges, and having a series of heavy threads or cords s uperficially and-exteriorly `attached in the Weaving-upona surface of awoven-strip constituting a loopor pocket-W'a'll,'th`e said series making a thickening .and constricting band on a portion of the pocket or loop.

A- Woven'fcarrier consisting of two woven strips placed face to face and secured to ether at intervals to form :pockets or loops constituting receptacles, woven each having a series of heavy threads or cords supercially` and exterlorly attached upon asurface 'thereof in the Weaving, making afthickening band.

l. A Woven carrier or belt consisting of :two Woven strips placed face-to faee and secured together at intervals toform lpockets or loops adapted to serve as receptacles for individual cartridges,

woven each having a series of heav threads the said .strips as.

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{eningY and constrioting band on a porthe said stripsas lor cords suuercially landexterxorly 23- vtached upon a surfacel thereof in the weaving, making a thickening `hand.

In testimony whereofl aiix'my signatur in presence of twowitnes'ses.

FRANKRBATCHELDER. Witnesses: f v ,/f-

"RAYMOND V. Sarra/A W. MoRTrMEr S1s'soN..

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